(May 31, 2016 at 4:38 am)Constable Dorfl Wrote:(May 30, 2016 at 7:51 pm)SteveII Wrote: Read this if you want to know just how far off you are. Also, have you ever looked at the approximate dates each book of the NT was written?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Developmen...0.93325.29
What do you think the abrupt ending of Mark proves? Certainly nothing that would support your argument. In the last few versus of the "uncontested" portion, it is clear that Jesus was expecting to see them again in Galilee.
Some scholars believe the author of Mark included an OLDER passage on the death and resurrection into his original book that would have been familiar to the audience and therefore sometimes separated early on from the rest of the book.
It shows that the bible has been significantly altered post writing, and considering that original Mark is present in the Codex Vaticanus we know that this alteration didn't become set theology until hundreds of years after christ's alleged life and death. While I'm not going to speculate on early christian theologies (hard to speculate on something with only fragmented scraps of evidence), I will say that that major change is strong evidence that current chritianity was massively altered at some stage.
Some "scholars" also believe that global warming isn't anthropogenic or that people used ride on dinosaurs. Just because you can get somebody in a cap and gown to agree with you doesn't make your assertions correct. The evidence we have shows that until at least the 200s CE Mark stopped at 16:8, if you want to claim different, provide evidence to back your claim. Anyways, appealing to biblical "scholarship" doesn't cut it for me, because like economics to much of that discipline is spent trying to fit facts to preconceived assumptions, either bt omission of inconvenient realities, or the invention of documents, or the acceptance of obvious falsehoods.
The dating of the oldest copy of Mark to the 300s does not mean anything other than that. Your charge of massively altered is not supported--just another one of those things people say over an over again to justify their position.
You didn't comment on Mark 16:6 and how that fits into your theory.
So, even if I post rebuttal after rebuttal to your unsupported objections, you are just going to fall back on "biblical scholarship doesn't cut it for me". Glad you stopped me.